عبد الله محمد بن جاسم المطيري. خبير إماراتي في المسكوكات الإسلامية، وباحث في التراث المحلي والخليجي، ومدير بيت الشيخ سعيد بن مكتوم آل مكتوم سابقا. يعمل الآن مستشارا لقطاع المتاحف والتراث في هيئة دبي للثقافة والفنون، وعضو الجمعية الملكية البريطانية والجمعية الأمريكية للنميات. شارك في العديد من المعارض المحلية والعالمية. كما يمتلك حوالي 15 ألف قطعة نقدية إسلامية تغطي العالم الإسلامي من الأندلس الى الصين تعود إلى 135 أسرة حكمت العالم الإسلامي، فضلا عن مجموعة من الطوابع الأثرية لعدد من دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي، والعراق. الآيات والشعارات على النقود الإسلامية لم تقتصر أهمية النقود في العصر الإسلامي على عملية التبادل التجاري، ولكنها كانت تستخدم للدعاية للدولة أو للخليفة. وكانت تحمل…

Alison Shan Price MBE Founder and director of One World Actors Centre UK and Creative Director of TAQA Productions, Kuwait, Shan Price has lived in Kuwait for 33 years working with multi-national artists to bring cross-cultural history alive through the medium of original performance. Later this season Shan Price will portray Dame Freya Stark in a new mono drama ‘Freya: Letters from Kuwait’. In 2017, she was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth 11 in the New Year’s Honours List for Services to Dramatic Arts in Kuwait and the Middle East. Stepping Over the Horizon: Dame Freya Stark 1893-1993 Standing only 5ft 1inch tall in stocking feet, Freya Madeline Stark…

Ms Salam (Sue) Kaoukji is the curator and collection manager of The al-Sabah Collection and the author of Precious Indian Weapons: And Other Princely Accoutrements, the latest book on objects in the collection. Kaoukji has contributed to numerous international exhibition publications about India and the jeweled arts, and has co-authored several exhibition catalogues for The al-Sabah Collection, including Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals and Al-Fann: Art from the Islamic Civilization. Precious Indian Weapons in The al-Sabah Collection This collection of nearly 200 jewelled weapons and priceless accoutrements from the Indian subcontinent was assembled over many decades by the owners of The…

Ziad Sayid Rajab Dr Ziad Rajab is the director of the New English School and a Tareq Rajab Museum board member. In addition to being a human resource specialist, he is involved in the arts, and has non-professional certifications in book binding, illumination, portraiture, oil painting and pottery. He is also an accomplished flautist. Incense Burners in the Tareq Rajab Museum Incense is inextricably linked to the history of civilisations in the Middle East and in particular, the Arabian Peninsula. From pre-Islamic times the region grew rich and fabled cities were established based on the production and trade of incense including frankincense and myrrh. As long as incense has been…